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Great Bass Players

Chest Pounding Bass!
Dont know if we already have/had one of these threads (nothing came up on search?) but how about the Lowly BASS.
As always the bass player rarely gets much attention and without them the Groove just wouldnt sound the same.

Lets not limit it to Rock for Jazz has had some great talent as well -
and besides...We All Love Really Good Bass!

I'll start, one of my favorites has always been Stanley Clarke (kind of obvious but what the hey!) more of a jazz fusion thing but his early stuff is really amazing. Has featured a lot of great guitar players to complement his style...Jeff Beck, Bill Connors and John McLaughlin to name a few. His more recent stuff is a little tame, his 70's stuff is the ticket

Andyoz !

Andyoz and I saw this guy with Gabriel last summer. Amazing to watch this man play. Stanley Clark can rock the boat too ! "Illegal" from East River Drive Krunchy, You wait till the 18" start pumpin this at ya

Chest Pounding Bass!
Dont know if we already have/had one of these threads (nothing came up on search?) but how about the Lowly BASS.
As always the bass player rarely gets much attention and without them the Groove just wouldnt sound the same.

Lets not limit it to Rock for Jazz has had some great talent as well -
and besides...We All Love Really Good Bass!

I'll start, one of my favorites has always been Stanley Clarke (kind of obvious but what the hey!) more of a jazz fusion thing but his early stuff is really amazing. Has featured a lot of great guitar players to complement his style...Jeff Beck, Bill Connors and John McLaughlin to name a few. His more recent stuff is a little tame, his 70's stuff is the ticket

What about the late self-taught Bernard Edwards from Chic. His grooves are some of the worlds most sampled ones.

Louis Johnson (One of the Brothers Johnson. Played with Michael Jackson on "Thriller", "Off the wall" and "Dangerous" and with George Benson on the "Give me the night" album etc... Nicknamed Thunder Thumbs!

Very Cool! I knew there would be a lot of names that I was not aware of and hopefully that would be of interest to many of us as well.

If you guys get a chance could you recomend an album or two if you have the time to do so, that would be very helpful as well. Thank you!

Rich, i remember you or Andyoz (Heather too) talking about Tony Levin and I got my wife the peter gabriel dvd and the guy was pretty amazing.
I got East River Drive, there are some great songs in there but not the whole album like in the old days,
"when its cold outside" from Hideaway if pretty hot as well, too short, he could do a 15min jam on that one

JE, its interesting that you mentioned sting and paul McCartney in your list and rightly so, sting is a really talented player as is paul (super talented bastage ), a lot of names Im not familiar with.

Oldmics
"First bass player I ever saw who tastefully used a whammy bar."
Now that is intersting, can you recommend an "album" that showcases this?